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habitat_gardener · February 21, 2009

Thank you, Andrey, very interesting.

Did the Agricultural Institutes and AES develop mostly open-pollinated varieties, or did they develop hybrids as well? And were most of the tomato varieties with Russian names developed by individual gardeners, or by Agricultural Institutes?

I will have to ask my aunt, who is 83, if she remembers anything about what her parents ate before they came to the U.S.

My mother and another aunt visited the Soviet Union in the 1970s and what I recall most from their stories is seeing people with armloads of flowers on Monday mornings, coming from their dachas. They had distant relatives there, so my mother also talked about walking (and walking and walking) to get to a dacha. Another aunt and uncle stayed in a village for 2 or 3 weeks.

February 21, 2009	#6
habitat_gardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: California Central Valley Posts: 2,540	Thank you, Andrey, very interesting. Did the Agricultural Institutes and AES develop mostly open-pollinated varieties, or did they develop hybrids as well? And were most of the tomato varieties with Russian names developed by individual gardeners, or by Agricultural Institutes? I will have to ask my aunt, who is 83, if she remembers anything about what her parents ate before they came to the U.S. My mother and another aunt visited the Soviet Union in the 1970s and what I recall most from their stories is seeing people with armloads of flowers on Monday mornings, coming from their dachas. They had distant relatives there, so my mother also talked about walking (and walking and walking) to get to a dacha. Another aunt and uncle stayed in a village for 2 or 3 weeks.